WebRTC
• Why WhatsApp's new voice call feature is bad news for networks:
• 75% of Viewers Leave Poor-Quality Video in 4 Minutes: Conviva
• Netflix plans Netflix Global
• Jay Z promotes 'artist-owned' music streaming brand Tidal: estimated combined net worth of the eighteen artists who signed the Tidal pledge is $2,043,000,000
• Media consumption: laptop and desktop still dominant
• How Nigerian blue collar workers use their phones: survey of 6,285 Nigerian blue collar workers with a monthly income of ₦20–40,000 (around US$100–200):
• Microsoft Azure Media Services: 'upload, store, encode and package video or audio content for both on-demand and live streaming delivery to a wide array of TV, PC and mobile device endpoints', with support for EME and MSE
• Akamai State of the Internet report for Q4 2014 released:
• Why WhatsApp's new voice call feature is bad news for networks:
Calls are robust and the sound quality is genuinely fantastic – better even than the HD audio you get on an intra-network phone call. But while this is great news for us, it's surely bad news for the mobile networks and will likely be the first step in a cosmic shift in the way they structure our tariffs.• Periscope launches: free iOS app to share live video, Android version in the works. They were acquired by Twitter for $100m.
• Facebook Messenger now does video calls: Facebook announcement, TechCrunch.
• SocketPeer: 'as its name suggests, a combination of WebSockets and RTCPeerConnection. This node.js library abstracts away the common pattern of using WebSockets as a signalling server to instantiate a DataChannel over WebRTC.'
• Archive and play back video comms: TokBox tools.
• Twilio Video for iOS, Android and 'JavaScript apps' (first time I've heard that phrase).
• Wire for Web: messaging platform with a tasty UI.
• WebRTC market expanding and maturing, but in unexpected ways: 6.7bn devices forecast to support WebRTC by the end of 2019.
• Archive and play back video comms: TokBox tools.
• Twilio Video for iOS, Android and 'JavaScript apps' (first time I've heard that phrase).
• Wire for Web: messaging platform with a tasty UI.
• WebRTC market expanding and maturing, but in unexpected ways: 6.7bn devices forecast to support WebRTC by the end of 2019.
• TADHack London: check out the Pi-powered WebRTC robot
• Why WebRTC Will Drive the Next Billion Dollar Company: 'the contextualisation of communications', WebRTC enables communications integrated within other apps, not just standalone.
• Die SIP Die
Web video
• The State of HTML5 Video: JW Player report updated.
• Shaka Player 1.3.0 released: easy-to-use JavaScript DASH client now provides offline playback and live streaming, updated EME support, improved buffering, bug fixes.
Codecs, containers, compression
• VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos (Reddit)
• New HEVC Patent Pool: What Are the Implications?
• VP9 v HEVC/H.265: tests of encoding quality, encoding time and playback CPU. VP9 scores well, but 'While the actual performance of the two codecs is a consideration, it’s generally not the deciding factor—certainly it wasn’t with VP8 and H.264'.
And finally...
• Why WebRTC Will Drive the Next Billion Dollar Company: 'the contextualisation of communications', WebRTC enables communications integrated within other apps, not just standalone.
• Die SIP Die
Web video
• The State of HTML5 Video: JW Player report updated.
• Shaka Player 1.3.0 released: easy-to-use JavaScript DASH client now provides offline playback and live streaming, updated EME support, improved buffering, bug fixes.
Codecs, containers, compression
• VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos (Reddit)
• New HEVC Patent Pool: What Are the Implications?
• VP9 v HEVC/H.265: tests of encoding quality, encoding time and playback CPU. VP9 scores well, but 'While the actual performance of the two codecs is a consideration, it’s generally not the deciding factor—certainly it wasn’t with VP8 and H.264'.
And finally...
• ...and if you like food, you'll love Vice's magnificent Munchies.
• SnapChat launches Local Our Story: video compilations only visible to Snapchatters at a specific event or location
• SnapChat launches Local Our Story: video compilations only visible to Snapchatters at a specific event or location
• TV industry faces its ‘ketchup’ moment: ‘Mobile is now the first screen’ (Eric Scherer, director of future media at France Télévisions):
Among the trends picked out by Scherer was the emergence of “a new syntax, a new grammar, a new vocabulary” for news, particularly when delivered through “the new kids on the block” in the form of apps including Instagram, Snapchat and Periscope.• EE offers wi-fi call back-up service
“They are always mobile, they are always social, they are always interactive … and it is more and more live,” he said, before turning his attention to YouTube and the growth of multi-channel networks (MCNs) like Maker Studios, which was bought by Disney in 2014.
“These are the people who are the new big players,” said Scherer, showing a slide of fresh-faced YouTubers. “These are the kids now ruling the entertainment, and it’s just the beginning of it. Again, new grammar, new syntax, new vocabulary.”
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“You better have a good relationship with your end users. Trust and transparency are considered as new services.”
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Virtual reality headsets are also on his radar. “VR is a total immersion inside the content, inside the fiction, inside the news, inside the documentary. Of course now it’s often in a very huge and very ugly helmet … but Samsung, Google, Sony, the big guys are all working on that,” said Scherer. “This immersion is the big new media of the next few years.”
• 75% of Viewers Leave Poor-Quality Video in 4 Minutes: Conviva
• Netflix plans Netflix Global
• Jay Z promotes 'artist-owned' music streaming brand Tidal: estimated combined net worth of the eighteen artists who signed the Tidal pledge is $2,043,000,000
• Media consumption: laptop and desktop still dominant
• How Nigerian blue collar workers use their phones: survey of 6,285 Nigerian blue collar workers with a monthly income of ₦20–40,000 (around US$100–200):
• More than half (51.4%) use mobile internet with monthly data spend between ₦1,000–2,000.• US IPTV revenues up, cable and satellite down
• Nearly two thirds (62.7%) spend ₦100–500 weekly on phone credit bought in ₦200 denominations.
• 61.8% indicated phone calls as the most frequent activity on their phones. Others indicated browsing (19.3%), texting (9%), chatting (7.1%) & gaming (2.8%)
• Microsoft Azure Media Services: 'upload, store, encode and package video or audio content for both on-demand and live streaming delivery to a wide array of TV, PC and mobile device endpoints', with support for EME and MSE
• Akamai State of the Internet report for Q4 2014 released:
12% of unique ip addresses connecting to Akamai globally had average connection speeds of 15 Mbps or above, up just 0.6% from the third quarter. South Korea remained the country with the highest level of 4k readiness, despite a 7.7% decline to a 61% readiness rate. The remaining countries/ regions in the top 10 all saw quarterly increases, with Lithuania showing the largest jump at 50%. The other increases were more modest, ranging from Latvia’s 1.4% to Romania’s 12%.
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